Page 59 of Sin

I turn my head to look at him. “Bones?”

Sin nods. “Let's just say he’s my business partner, but not on paper.”

“Does he live here?”

He shakes his head. “Not full time. He has many properties, a couple of which are in the Las Vegas area.”

With a smirk, he says, “You’re asking a lot of questions tonight. Anything else you’d like to know?”

“If I were a cactus, would you still love me?”

Sin bursts out laughing. “Why the fuck would you be a cactus?”

I shrug. “That’s not the question.”

A delicious grin forms on his face. “Yes, baby, if you were a cactus, I’d still love you. Fucking you would probably hurt like hell, but I don’t think I could stay away.”

I arch an eyebrow at him in surprise, “Probably? I think it would definitely hurt like hell.”

He laughs again. “Well, it’s not like I have experience fucking cacti. Now, do I get a turn at twenty questions?”

I smile, “Of course.”

“Are you drunk?”

“I wish. No, I’m not drunk. Just nervous.”

Sin puts his arm around me and holds me close. “Nervous about what?”

I roll my eyes at him because isn’t that obvious?

“The mobster guy. He sounds dangerous. What if he kills me, too?”

He chuckles and leans down, kissing me on the forehead. “Baby girl, I promise you, he will not hurt you. The guys he has are probably already in a lot of pain but you he won’t touch. Yes, he does bad things regularly, and he’s definitely a little crazy, but he’d never hurt me and he’d never hurt you. Trust me, please. If I thought there was even a remote chance he’d hurt you, you wouldn’t be coming with me. I will never put you in danger again. Can you trust me?”

I reach up and touch the heart on my collar. “Yes, Daddy.”

He kisses me softly and asks, “When you touch the heart, what are you thinking?”

I look into his blue eyes and admit, “It makes me feel loved, safe and protected. I can’t really explain it. When I hold it in my hand, it’s like it grounds me, makes me feel like everything will be okay as long as I have you.”

Reaching over, Sin undoes my seatbelt and pulls me into his lap. “You are all three things, baby.”

He pulls me tight against him, and I place my head on his shoulder.

“I know I failed you before, baby girl. I promise it will never happen again. There were things I didn’t know. I trusted someone I never should have. Nobody has access to my home now. Not even Zade and Bones. I will not take any chances with you.”

When he told me what Belinda did, I was upset. With her, not with him. How could he have possibly known she would do something like that? I know he blames himself, but I don’t.

I rotate on his lap, so I’m straddling him and gently cup his face with my hands. “None of what happened was your fault. Eventually, they would’ve caught up to me. I knew better than to stay in one place for too long. It’s always been a few days, but I couldn’t leave because you gave me everything I wanted but never dared to hope for. Please stop blaming yourself. I’m alive.”

Grabbing my face, he pulls my lips to his and kisses me with a thigh clenching intensity. Turning my head to the side, he pushes his tongue into my mouth, causing me to moan as he practically fucks my mouth with his.

He pulls back, both of us are breathless and he groans, “Jesus. You drive me fucking insane. Every hour of the goddamn day I want to be inside you. If I could fucking live there, I would.”

I giggle softly. “That would make work more interesting for everybody.”

The car stops and he says, “If you’re uncomfortable, use your safe word and I’ll get you out of there. Your emotional safety is as important as the physical. If you need out, you tell me.”

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